The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1948 Page: 2 of 12
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THE DENISON PRESS
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j Jctered as second-dan matter May It, 1(147, at
the Post Offtoe at Denison, Texas, under the act
Klfendt 8. 1879.*’
Telephone No. 800
Office ot Publication 205 W. Main
Issued Each Friday
)Y M. ANDERSON........Editor and Publisher
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^ASSOCIATION
National advertising representative Inland News-
paper Representatives, Inc., Wrigley Building,
Chicago, 111.___
Dedicated to clean and responsive government;
to individual and civic integrity; to individual and
civic commercial progress.
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advertisers desiring blind addresses._
ERRORS: The Denison Press will not be re-
sponaible for more than one incorrect insertion.
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be published the same day._
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One year in advance .................................... $2.00
Six months in advance .................................... $1.00
(Outside county add 25c each six months)
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having telephone listed in their own name and up-
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cent will be added on upaid private accounts after
30 days from date of first insertion.
Any erroneous statement reflecting upon the
character or reputation of any persons will be
{ladly corrected if brought to the attention of the
publishers. The Denison Press assumes no respon-
sibility for error in advertising insertions beyond
the price of the advertisement
I
PRESS TWENTY YEARS OLD
With this issue the Denison Press en-
ters volume 20. This is a very simple state-
ment, but to publishers twenty years in the
grind of coming out regularly for a fifth
of a century is no small task. However, to
offset the labor is the fact that each week
offers new chance for romance and inter-
esting contacts, not to mention the chal-
lenge of promoting the best interests of
one’s community.
In the matter of promoting such com-
munity interest, the Press prides itself in
being able to inaugurate several civic pro-
jects, as well as to have a part in every-
thing good for the city.
I Our physical plant today is declared
to be among the best in the field of weekly
papers, while our job printing department
is in every way equipped as well as the
best in North Texas. This has all come
about from scratch with an original in-
vestment of $200 and in a rented building.
Today we are in our home and with !
a plant worth five figures and owning no
man, we feel we have demonstrated that
“Denison, the Gate City of Texas, is a good
place to live and work.”
To all we extend our hearty thanks
for their fine cooperation and shall bend
our efforts to make this next year the best1
WHO IS A TEXAN?
It is during political campaigns that
we get a chance to hear slogans, promises
and have considerable torridness worked
up with hortatory talks and epithet-punc-
tured speeches.
It is such speeches that tend to divide
our citizenry and make for a voting people
who, as it was jokingly said of the laic
Teddy Roosevelt, ‘'think with the hips.”
If students of psychology will take
the average slogan or platform of the po-
litical office seeker into their study room
and analyze it, they will find a series of
contradictions, ambiguity and utlfulfi' able
promises, not to mention statements char-
acterized not to unite the spirits of men for
a common high purpose for the state, but
statements characterized to arouse the
rabble, stir up prejudices, divide and de-
stroy—anything to get men to vote with-
out thinking and place the political char-
latan in office.
One of the oldest of the cheap ap-
peals is to the class distinction. It would
divide men into camps. The recrudescence
of the old idea that there are bond and
free, male and female, Jew and Gentile,
Greek and Barbarian, American and oth-
ers, Texans and others, the other side of
the track folk, the capitalist and the la-
borers—all these and others would such
political marplots seize upon if only he
can sell himself to the voter and ride the
straw horse into office.
If the people as a rule are let alone
to mingle and work together, they will
soon find a common and understanding le-
vel. People who worship and work to-
gether soon come to like each other. We
come to understand each other that down
under the skin we are brothers and have a
common goal, a common faith, a common
desire.
The real statesmanlike attitude is to
seek the common denominator of our citi-
zenship and work out a common destiny
together. If we are born free and equal,
let’s try and keep it that way. Any artifi-
cial barrier created by the seeker of pub-
lic office is a menace to the people and a
loadstone to the charlatan or opportunist.
Being a good citizen in any situation,
whether town, city, precinct, county, state
or nation, is not a matter or birth or blood.
It is a question of the spirit in the man.
Unless one is able to bring himself to
the point he is willing to share with oth-
ers the common fruits of Democracy and
works that all may receive the thing call-
ed elementary justice, no claim that he is a
native of any given location will make him
a good citizen. Nor may he lay claim to
the fact that he has a right over one born
in another location as to the natural fruits
and resources of any given locality.
Texas or the nation belongs to no
given people, race, color or creed—they
belong to those whose souls are baptized
with the good spirit of democratic citizen-
ship and who believe in the brotherhood
of man and the Fatherhood of God.
We want Denisonians for Denison,
Graysoncountyites "for Grayson county,
Texans for Texas and Americans for Amer-
ica, and not the reverse. The first is broad
and Christian-like, the latter position is
narrow and pagan-like.
Shop in Denison, Texas, the Gate City, and Save
Mrs. B. J. Lindsay
Keeps Tradition
Of Famous Concern
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Faithfully keeping the tradition
of the business founded by her
husband, the late B. J. Lindsay,
Mrs. B. ,1. Landsay, systematically
advertises herself as D/B/A B. J.
Lindsay. At the same time the
present head of the firm is hold-
ing aloft the traditions of its
founder and carrying forward the
business in the same efficient man
r.er her late husband coached her
No Nut
is too hard to crack
No problem is too hard to solve! Not many of
them, anyway! We know we’re being immod-
est. . . but we hope we’re also reassuring when
we say we haven’t found an insurance problem
we couldn’t solve ... in all our years in this
business.
Only Old-Line Companies
Wo Cover Everything
Mrs. B. J. Lindsay
D/B/A B. J. LINDSAY, THE INSURANCE MAN-
417 W. Main St. Phone 322
BABCOCK BATTERIES
BEST
Congratulations Denison Press on Vol. 20
BE
SURE
AND
FILL
WITH
THE DENISON PRESS, DENISON, HEXAS
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1948
in our plant's history as to service for the
community.
THE PUBLISHERS
RATES
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upon application. Legal rates at
one cent per word per insertion.
1 time lc per word.
3 times 2c per word.
G times 3c per word.
(for consecutive insertions
Minimum charge is for 12 words
1 machine which is used lor wash-
ing and cleaning vehicles, remov-
ing ail loose scale and foreign mat-
ter which tends to corrode or de-
preciate cars and trucks. The firm
does wheel balancing and uses an
electrical polisher for better and
(luicker polishing work.
‘‘We sincerely appreciate the
Young men urgently needed to
train as technicians while receiv-
ing good salary. High school di-
ploma helpful, but not necessary
ill some eases. Must be free to
travel at government expense. Ap-
ply 301 W. Woodard St., U. S.
Army & U. S. Air Forces Recruit-
ing Station, Denison, Texas.
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POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BABOLENE—10c
The Press is authorized to an-
nounce the following candidates
lor their respective offices sub-
ject to action of the Democratic
Primary July 24, 1948:
FOR CONGRESS:
Sam Rayburn, Bonham
David H. Brown
G. C. Morris
FOR COUNTY JUDGE:
Harold II. Vestal
J. N. (Jin:) Dickson
FLOTORIAL REPRESENTATIVE
LeRoy M. Anderson, Denison
Carl Akins Reports
Business Increase,
Adds New Equipment
business with which our friends
and customers have favored ds in
tho past, and as we go Into anoth-
er year we propose to express out
appreciation 4>y pledging the best
efforts of our firm, to merit thii
continued patronage,” commented
Mr. Akins.
CARL AKINS
YOUR
530 W. MAIN
DEALER
PHONE 71
“APPRECIATIVE SERVICE”
325 W. Main Phone 420
Jam Ccck liil
*YOUq RELIABLE SHOE MAN"
325 W. MAIN AT LINXWILER’S
DENISON MACHINE & SUPPLY
E. D, RODOCKER
Welding and Machine Work
Automotive work, Motor Rebuilding
Crankshaft Grinding in or out of car.
«2J W. CHESTNUT 8T. " PHONE 2#J
G. W. BLANKENSHIP & SONS
SERVICE STATION
• PHILLIPS G6 OILS and GASOLINE
431 W. Chestnut St. Phone 722
Bka°ldw1N
PLUMBING. -ELECTRICAL and SHEET METAL WORK
303-5 VV. Woodard St. Pli.,no 32
SNOUU-UUHIT6
La. nderers, Cleaners, and Dyers
PHONES 716-717
ALL KINDS OF
INSURANCE
Only Old Line Companies.
We Cover Everything
MRS. B. J. LINDSAY
D B A B. J. LINDSAY, THE INSURANCE MAN
417 W. Main St.
Phone 322
Since opening May 19, 194ft, as
Carl Akins Texaco Service at 530
West Main with a full line of
Texaco products, the firm has en-
joyed steadily increasing patron-
age, according to Carl Akins, own-
er and manager. One of the newer
pieces of equipment is the Moto-
Sway lubrication unit, which
causes the vehicle being lubricated
to sway continuously thus loosen-
ing the joints of fittings so the lu-
bricant may pass into fittings and
insure a better lubrication job.
The Kerrick steam cleaner is
another modern service station
Sid Maples
Steakley Chevrolet Co
The Place to Buy O. K. Used Cars
TELEPHONE 231— —20G S BURNETT AVF-.
HARRY E. KAIN
ATTORNEY AT-LAW
Security Building
Phone 1703
DENISON, TEXAS
BRATCHER-MOORE
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
to do.
Representing the oldest lines of
insurance and manifesting at all
times the disposition to give the
very best service to the customer
while at the same time being fair
with her companies, Mrs. Lindsay
has been able to even gain addi-
tional prestige as an agency and
the expanding business speaks for
itself.
Located in the downtown sec-
tion of the city and on the ground
floor at 417 W. Main, Mrs. Lind-
say has one of the most conven-
ient offices for her line of busi-
ness to be found in North Texas.
Aside from the insurance line,
the company carries on an exten-
sive rental and sales department
for real estate. A large group of
Denison folk are given employ-
ment through the activities of the
Lindsay agency. _
Central Hide
& Rendering
Companv
401 W. WOODARD
Phone 113
J. R. HANDY
AGENCY
GENERAL
INSURANCE
Phone 104
303Vs> Woodard
HIGHEST CASH PRICE
PAID FOR DEAD OR
CRIPPLED STOCK
FOR IMMEDIATE SERVICE
Phone 979 Collect
DENISON
The Cardinal principles of fine diamonds are
yours when you choose a Cardinal Bonded
Diamond Ring.
In 1942, Texas Power & Light Company served 176,000 customers ... in 1946, 208,000...
and in 1947, 230,000!
The amount of electricity needed to supply the growing area this company serves tells
a similar story. During 1947 this company supplied its customers with 27 per cent more elec-
tricity than in 1943.
The steady increase in need for electric power came at a time when further expansion of
generating facilities was impossible, because during the war, all the big turbogenerators
manufactured were diverted to the war program by the government.
It was the normal peacetime reserve electric-capacity this company had maintained that
enabled it to supply the tremendous increase in electric power demand. This reserve is now
about used up, and our big problem is to keep you supplied
with electricity until new generators are received and installed.
The new generators are coming... three small ones are
already installed and operating ... two big ones are scheduled
for delivery this year and next year. This new generating capac-
ity will total 81,000 kilowatts (108,000 electric horsepower) to
supplement our present 294,000 horsepower of electric power
resources.
But between now and the time all this new capacity can be
delivered and installed, there may be occasions when it will be
a tight squeeze to make existing power supply go around.
However, we want to assure you that we are working hard to
the end that electric power may continue to flow to you in
whatever quantities you may need.
TEXAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
JOHN W. CARPENTER, President and General Manager
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Anderson, LeRoy M. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1948, newspaper, June 25, 1948; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth527854/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.